The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-02-19

work Is personal ConSccration
am sure that there are some here
who at some time have been hit by the
gospel arrow. You felt the wound OF
that conviction, and you plunged into
the world deeper. just as the stag.
when the hounds are after IL. plunges
into Scroon Lake, expecting in that
way TO escape. Jesus Christ is on
your track to-day. impenitent man.
not in wrath. but in mercy. Oh. We
chased and painting souls. here is the
stream OF Gods mercy and salvation.
where you may cool your thirst. Stop
that chase OF sin to-day. by the red
fount that leaped from the heart of my
Lord, bid you stop. There is mercy
for you--mercy that pardons; mercy
that heals; everlasting mercy. Is there
in all this house any one who can re-
fuse the offer that comes from the
heart Of the dying Son of Godg
There Is a forest in Germany, a
place they call the "Dear leap" he.
cause once a hunter was on the track
Of deer; IL came 10 one Of these
crags; there was no escape for ~ from
the pursuit of the hunter. and In utter
despair 1t gathered itself up. and in
the death agony attempted TO jump
across. OF course II fell. and was
dashed To death on the rocks far be-
meath. Here is path TO heaven. IL
Is plain; il Is safe. Jesus marks IL out
for every man to walk in. But here is
man who says:
III won't walk in that path; will
go my own way"
He comes on up until he confronts
the chasm that divides his soul from
heaven. Now his last hour has come.
and he resolves that he will leap that
chasm, from the heights of earth TO the
heights of heaven. Stand back now
and give him full swing, for no soul
ever did that successfully. Let him
try. Jump, jump! He misses the
mark and goes down. depth below
! depth, destroyed without remedy"
Men! angelsl devilsl what shall we
call that place OF awful catastropheg
Let Ii be known forever as the "Sin
ner's Death Leap"
J IL is said that when Charlemagne's
host was overpowered by three armies
! Of the Saracens in the Pass of Ronces-
wales, his warrior, Roland, In terrible
earnestness, seized trumpet, and
blew IL with such terrific strength that
the opposing army reeled back with
terror; but the third blast of the
trumpet IL broke in two.
see your soul flercely assailed by
all the powers of earth and hell put
the mighter trumpet Of the Gospel TO
my lips, and blow it three times.
Blast the first-"Whosceye will, let
him come"
Blast the second-"Seek We the Lord
while he may be found"
Blast the third-"Now Is the accept
ed time: now is the day of salvation"
Does not the host of your sins fall
back. But the trumpet does not, like
that Of Roland, break in two. AS it
was handed down TO us from the lips
of our fathers, we hand IL down to the
lips of our children, and tell them to
sound 1t when we are dead. that all
the generations OF men may know that
our God is pardoning God, a sympa-
thetic God, a loving God; and that
more TO him than the anthems OF
heaven, more 10 him than the throne
on which he sits, more TO him than are
the temples of celestial worship, is the
JOY of seeing the wanderer putting his
hand on the door-latch Of his fathers
house. Hear 1t, all we nations! Bread
for the worst hunger. Medicine for
the worst sickness. Light for the
thickest darkness. Harbor from the
worst storm.
DIR. Prime, in his book Of wonderful
interest, entitled Around the World"
describes a tomb in India OF marvellous
architecture. Twenty thousand men
were twenty-five years In erecting that
and the building around IL. Standing
at that tomb, If you speak or sing,
after you have ceased you hear the
echo coming from height of $50 feet.
IL is not like other echoes. The sound
Is drawn out in sweet prolongation, as
though the angels Of God were chant
ing on the wing.
How many souls here to-day, in the
tomb of sin, sill lift up the voice of
penitence and prayerg If now they
would cry unto God, the echo would
drop from afar--not struck from the
marble cupola Of an earthly mausoleum,
but sounding back from the warm
heart OF angels, flying with the news;
for there is Joy among the angels of
God over one sinner that repenteth.
The archers OF old times studied
/ their art They were very nrpcise In